John Rhea

John Rhea (1753-27 May 1832) was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-TN) from 1803 to 1815 and from 1817 to 1823 (succeeding Samuel Powell and preceding John Blair.

Biography
John Rhea was born in Langhorn, County Londonderry, Ireland in 1753, and his family emigrated to Pennsylvania when he was 16, settling in Philadelphia. The family moved to Piney Creek, Maryland in 1771 and then to eastern Tennessee (then a part of North Carolina) in 1778. Rhea served in the militia at the Battle of Kings Mountain in 1780 during the American Revolutionary War and went on to serve as Sullivan County clerk from 1785 to 1790, in the House of Commons, as a delegate to the Tennessee constitutional convention in 1796, as a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives, and a member of the US House of Representatives from 1803 to 1815 and from 1817 to 1823. He died in Blountville, Tennessee in 1832.